Vogel totentanz
By: Sarah Horowitz ; 29 etchings
Contributors: Cohen, Claudia, 1953- binder; Wiesedruck (Firm)
Publisher: Wiesedruck
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Birds; Pictorial works; Mortality; Dance of death; Environmental health
Description: "Vogel Totentanz is a bird dance of death alphabet book inspired by Hans Holbein's Dance of Death woodcut alphabet. After the Black Plague ravaged Europe in the late 14th century, death as inevitable regardless of status or age became a pervasive motif in art and literature. My present-day Totentanz is a reflection of that idea in context of our environmental crisis. Birds are indicator species for overall environmental health and human well-being." -- Artist's website.
Notes: Engraved half-title page.

Place of publication follows publisher's statement on imprint.

"The etchings were drawn from specimens at the Cashmere Museum in Washington and other found remains. Diotima types were used throughout. The text was letterpress printed on Zerkall book paper by Arthur Larson of Horton Tank Graphics. Claudia Cohen bound and boxed the edition of forty." -- Colophon.

In slipcase, as issued.

Rare Book copy: No. 16; signed by the artist.

Bound in bird-footprint-etching printed blue paper; leather spine label adhered to spine with gilt titling and bird-footprint pattern.